Basquiat
by Julian Schnabel
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Actor: Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani, David Bowie, Jeffrey Wright, Michael WincottDirector: Julian Schnabel
Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
Writer: Julian Schnabel
Producer: Jon Kilik
Producer: Joseph Allen
Producer: Lech Majewski
Writer: Lech Majewski
Writer: John F. Bowe
Writer: Michael Holman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
DVD Reviews of Basquiat
DVD Review: Compelling and tragic
Summary: 5 Stars
Basquiat's life and demise are lessons in too-sudden fame and the exploitation of African Americans, street people, and the poor. Julian Schnabel has made a subtle and artistically structured tribute to Basquiat, the kind of tribute that only a fellow artist could make. The film exposes the New York art world for some of its artificiality, power plays, maneuvers and corruption in the lime-lighting of potential money-making genius. The film, however, feeds the myth that great artists are marginally sane and creative to the extent of that marginality. An excellent choice for viewing.DVD Review: Street Art, Abstract Art
Summary: 5 Stars
"Basquiat" was Julian Schnabel's first art house flick in 1996. It garnered critical attention with performances from David Bowie (as Andy Warhol), Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, as well as newcomers like Benicio del Toro, Claire Forlani, and Parker Posey. Jeffrey Wright is excellent as Basquiat,the graffiti artist who enjoyed great success, but then fell through his own excesses.
"Basquiat" is visually striking. After all, director Schnabel is a painter. The screen is his canvas. This movie is nearly 15 years old, yet it retains its freshness and vigor. The vividness is as great as when it first came out. "Basquiat" is painting on the screen!
DVD Review: New York Art Scene
Summary: 4 Stars
I try to believe recent years to bring about so many artist-linked doco-dramas as the seventies-eighties of the last century.
Depicting a struggling to survive in New York young Afro-American carved a very cluster of art/cultural community for generations coming.
DVD Review: Ok, so I saw this because of David Bowie/Andy Warhol...
Summary: 4 Stars
...and he was incredible as Andy Warhol. Creepy silences, slow movements, that voice. I really enjoyed watching him most of all. And I read on imdb.com that he wore some of Andy Warhol's real wigs! That must have been an awesome experience, to portray someone you admired in real life. Jeffrey Wright was impressive as Basquiat, and seeing Christopher Walken is always a treat. I didn't know much about Basquiat before watching this, but I appreciate his work more after catching this short glimpse of his world, dingy NYC in the 1980s, lifestyles of eccentric artists, drugs, music, etc. Definitely watch if you're a fan of Basquiat or any of the fine actors here.DVD Review: I appreciate it more each time I watch it
Summary: 5 Stars
Well, I love the artwork of Basquiat; add to that the fantastic actors (Jeffrey Wright is genius); the film manages to capture the essence of Basquiat's short but talented life in a celebratory and poignant way. As time goes on, this film gains even more relevance. If I said too much it would spoil it; there's something fragile there, but enduring.
Description of Basquiat
BASQUIAT chronicles the meteoric rise to fame of the gifted and charismatic young New York artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, as he emerged from the streets of the East Village to become an internationally renowned sensation.In his writing and directorial debut, Julian Schnabel's film Basquiat depicts the life of graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, a.k.a. SAMO, and the turbulent period from the late 1970s to 1988, as his life was catapulted into fame and notoriety. As Jean-Michel's work gained favorable attention from New York's elite art community, he went from a street punk living in a cardboard box to the first black artist to succeed in the all-white dominated art world. Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright does a brilliant job portraying a man tortured by self-doubt and thoughts of suicide, struggling to survive and be acknowledged as an artist. The film's use of dreamlike imagery and rhythmic pace tells the story from the perspective of Jean-Michel's eyes as he manages to "float" through relationships and gallery showings, until his impending death in 1988 from a heroin overdose. Brimming with talent, the film also stars David Bowie as pop-artist Andy Warhol, Michael Wincott as poet Rene Ricard, and many others, including Gary Oldman, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Hopper, and Courtney Love. --Michele Goodson
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